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Auction: 16036 - West Africa Pre-U.P.U. Postal History, The John Sacher Collection
Lot: 1282

Gold Coast
The Stamp Period
Cape Coast Castle
1878 envelope to France, bearing 1876 2d. blue (2, one bisected diagonally) and 6d. orange, all clearly tied by "556" in oval of bars, showing red crayon "1" and "6½", "paid liverpool/br. packet" (10.1), London Paid and Calais datestamps, with arrival c.d.s. on reverse; some reduced tone spotting, nevertheless a spectacular and rare bisect franking. Photo

provenance:
"Ashanti", January 1991.
McCaig Collection.

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